The
Defendant, Katelyn Bateman, appeals as of right from the
Cheatham County Circuit Court's order revoking her
community corrections sentence and ordering the Defendant to
serve the remainder of her sentence in confinement. The
Defendant argues that the trial court abused its discretion
in ordering the sentence served in confinement rather than
permitting a furlough to the drug court program. Following
our review, we affirm the order of the trial court.

On
October 3, 2016, the Defendant pled guilty to two counts of
selling a Schedule II controlled substance (Oxycodone and
Oxymorphone). In exchange, she received concurrent terms of
three years as a Range I, standard offender, and her
three-year effective sentence was to be suspended and served
on supervised probation. She was also ordered to pay a fine,
restitution, and court costs. The trial court revoked the
Defendant's probation on July 25, 2017, for
"resisting arrest, public intox[ication], fail[ure] to
report arrest[s], failure to report, [and] failure to pay
c[ourt] c[osts] and restitution." The new arrests listed
in the two probation violation warrants consisted of public
intoxication in Cheatham County on April 12, 2017; public
intoxication and resisting arrest in Davidson County on June
10, 2017; and additional arrests in Cheatham County for
public intoxication, drug possession without a prescription,
possession of drug paraphernalia, and misdemeanor failure to
appear. After her probation was revoked, the Defendant was
placed in the Community Corrections Program for supervision.

A
violation of community corrections warrant was issued on
March 27, 2018, wherein it was alleged that the Defendant
failed to inform her community corrections officer before
changing her residence, failed to carry out certain
instructions given to her by her community corrections
officer, failed a drug screen by testing positive for
marijuana and an opiate, and failed to remain on house
arrest. The Defendant admitted the violations, and her
community corrections sentence was partially revoked on May
29, 2018. The trial court resentenced the Defendant to four
years and ordered her to serve ninety days in the county jail
before being released to level one community corrections
supervision.

On July
9, 2018, another revocation warrant was issued. This time the
Defendant was alleged to have failed to report to her
community corrections officer and to have used intoxicants in
violation of her conditions of supervision. Regarding the use
of intoxicants, it was stated in the warrant that the
Defendant was administered a drug test on June 21, 2018, and
that she tested positive for methamphetamine and marijuana.
According to the Defendant's community corrections
officer, the Defendant also stated on her admission form that
she had smoked marijuana ten to twelve days prior while she
was still incarcerated in the county jail.

At a
subsequent hearing, the Defendant admitted to violating the
conditions of her community corrections sentence. In
particular, the Defendant acknowledged that she had smoked
marijuana while she was serving her ninety days in jail
following her prior revocation. The Defendant stated that she
"didn't know that [she] was going to be getting
out" when she smoked marijuana. The Defendant explained
that upon her release, she told her community corrections
officer that she would test positive for marijuana. She
claimed that she did not know that the marijuana was laced
with methamphetamine and that methamphetamine was not her
"drug of choice." According to the Defendant, her
community corrections officer told her that they were
"not going to move . . . forward with [her] community
corrections, so" she quit reporting.

The
Defendant asked to be granted a furlough to participate in
the drug court program in order to receive treatment for her
alcohol problem. According to the Defendant, she had applied
to the drug court program on her initiative and had been
admitted to that program. The Defendant claimed that she had
not received any prior drug rehabilitation treatment and that
she wanted to become a "sober, productive member of
society." However, the Defendant denied that she had a
drug problem and claimed that her only addiction was to
alcohol. In addition, the Defendant admitted ...

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